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wood

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  1. No shit. Absolutely mind-blowing. At her best/most made-up, she was average looking and obviously pushing maximum density.
  2. It absolutely blows my mind that anyone still buys cars from this fucking clown (or that they ever did, really).
  3. Been saying it since before the season ... win the Big 12 on the way out the door. Everything else is gravy.
  4. That was what struck me the most while watching him his freshamn year on the 40 - the way he finished runs. I've never seen anyone finish runs the way he did, before or since, at any level. And re: the collision with Mike Williams, I have always thought he was never quite the same after that.
  5. Wow I just realized ... there's the 4-week summer break, then 4 races, then a 4-week gap, then a triple header starting at COTA, a 3-week break, and then - you guessed it - triple header. In a 24-race calendar from Feb to Dec. Seems like some or all of those triple headers could have been avoided.
  6. Shit. My bad. In my response above about steering into a skid,I quoted the wrong post. That was meant for this post. Sorry, NiceGuyEddie. I assume you've found out since then, but just in case: if you're skidding and the front of the car is pointing to the right side of the road, steer to the left, 'into' the skid, etc.
  7. I didn't read the whole thing, but it seemed like he was headed in the direction saying nobody should be driving a car like that on the street. That's way over the top, but imho, and this may sound very elitist, the vast majority of people driving high-powered cars on the road have zero business doing so, at least if they're driving them hard. Beat me to it. Exactly who I was thinking about when I wrote the above. I can't tell you how many rich mfers I've seen at COTA in their very fast, very expensive cars who have not the first clue or tiniest shred of talent to be able to properly control those beats in anger. Even some of the 'race drivers' (read: rich guy wannabe race car driver) in Ferrari and Porsche 'racing series' have no.fucking.clue, but can afford to tear up that expensive-ass equipment - both theirs and the other guy's. My SIL and her hubby are perfect examples of people driving massively overpowered cars and not having the first clue how to handle them. Hers: Taycan S. His 911 GT3. I assume you've found out since then, but just in case: if you're skidding and the front of the car is pointing to the right side of the road, steer to the left, 'into' the skid.
  8. Yeah so it kinda begs the question imho why, in this age of pretty much every function of a car being controlled by electronics, the car is even able to continue accelerating like that while the driver is on the brakes. First off, that's an impressive amount of acceleration for a car whose driver is riding the brakes, probably smashing them to the floor. I love performance driving on a track, a little bit of 'spirited' driving on the road as much as the next guy and have had performance-oriented cars since I was 15, but got damn, it can't for the life of me think of a good reason why a current car sjhould be able to accelerate like that when the driver has their foot on the brake. It just seems like an obvious design logic flaw unless I'm missing something, and it seems like it wouldn't be hard at all to limit the ECU when the car is moving and the driver applies brake input. Just seems obvious to me. When something like that goes wrong, what's everyone's first reaction going to be about 99.999999999% of the time? Yeah, hit the brakes. And that should be a way oiut of it. every time.
  9. What did he say? I wasn't able to watch. McElroy seems aight.
  10. Yep. Anyone coming from out of town better get their hotel rooms now. But Bobby loves that overlap. Helps keep those waters muddy. OBTW I loved the caption under the flyover. Something like "F1 Sustainable Flyover by Qatar Airways" - after banning military flyovers to reduce carbon emissions - as a massive commercial jet and 7 small jets fly past. Too funny, just like all the burnouts at the end of the sustainable racing season. LOL. Good stuff. And to be clear, I have no problem with it not being sustainable. It's the pretense ....
  11. So ... USGP same weekend as Texas - Georgia. LOl.
  12. Good read with some great points, from TheDrive.com: Toto Wolff Is Running Out of Excuses to Oppose Andretti Cadillac’s F1 Entry: GM-backed Andretti has the money, Cadillac’s name, and true intent. Why can’t F1’s top brass see the value in that https://www.thedrive.com/news/toto-wolff-is-running-out-of-excuses-to-oppose-andretti-cadillacs-f1-entry Exactly. Yeah, Big Stroll, that's because the NHL is currently full, after a recent expansion where teams were allowed in without buying existing teams. So hilarious that he said that in Vegas, home of one of the most recent expansion teams in the NHL. F1, however, is not currently full-up. There are a couple of vacancies. The teams don't really have a leg to stand on anyway re: "lost winnings". The truth is that they've benefitted greatly from extra winnings collected due to running a partial grid with winning shares based only on that partial grid. Some have said that winning shares should be based on a full grid, not on 10 teams in the first place, and imho that's spot on. What the teams are truly arguing is that they should continue receiving extra payment, not full payment. In fact, if Andretti entered today and the winnings were then split 11 ways, they would all still be getting extra payment, just not as much extra payment. How long until they figure out that they could take an even bigger share of the money with even fewer teams on the grid? Better watch your cornholes, Haas, Sauber, Williams, etc. Re: the dilution fee, Stroll should also note that the most recent fee paid by an NHL expansion team worked out to about $20M per existing team, which is what F1 is asking and what Andretti is willing to pay. Sounds to me like the existing teams would be getting a helluva deal, and they wouldn't even have to make any of their talent available to the new team the way existing NHL teams do when the new team enters.
  13. Yes, and I'm so thankful for social media. Now the rest of the world is finally catching on to what we've known about the aggy delusion cult for a century.
  14. Jesus. I'm 58 and I look 20 years younger than that fucker.
  15. Holy crap. Mike Leslie went in hard, with sandpaper. Noice.
  16. That's what just being happy to be there gets you. Fuck Haas.
  17. Yeah I'm not faulting him for not thinking of it in time. That's why I've been telling my family that if anything like that ever happens when they're driving (unlikely as it might be), that the quickest, surest way to shut that shit down is to put it in neutral and let the engine eat itself. It's kinda one of those things, unfortunately, that if you've never considered it beforehand, you probably won't think of it when it happens and still might not think of it even if you have before. Hadn't heard about the video of them panicking. That's terrible.
  18. *Flying. They also haven't ruled out a medical emergency, but I suppose that might not ever be completely ruled out given the likely state of the remians. There has been a recall on that model of car for sticking accelerators/unexpected acceleration - but only on the right-hand-drive versions. A CNN story said pieces of wreckage were strewn across 12+ checkpoint booths. Interesting case for sure imho. https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/23/us/us-canada-border-rainbow-bridge-explosion-thursday/index.html
  19. So apparently it was a bentley Fling Spur, which can be equipped with as much as a 6.0L W12 engine. Surveillance video shows the driver wasn't impaired and was pressing on the brake pedal. Guess he didn't think of throwing it into neutral. That's some amazing power if it overcame the brakes enough to hit that kind of speed in 3/4 of a mile. https://jalopnik.com/couple-killed-in-u-s-canada-border-explosion-were-driv-1851049907
  20. Yep. Nobody seems to know if that's good or bad for us, but I just don't see Bama winning either.
  21. Dang. advantage aggy yet again!
  22. Can someone remind me what Sark's salary is?
  23. Can't wait to see Arch play verse Okie Lite.
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